President Donald Trump is failing to comply with a federal judge’s temporary restraining order to pay USAID and its partners, a coalition suing over the shuttering of the foreign assistance agency said in a Monday emergency filing. The administration hasn’t complied with the court’s short-term order to honor the terms of agreements, grants, loans, and awards that were in place before Trump took office, a coalition of lawyers’ associations, global health and international business groups said. Instead, it severely limited access to the agency’s core funding tracker. It is “funneling all payment approvals through a single person, terminating hundreds of critical personnel, and suddenly imposing new processes and procedures concerning payment ‘integrity’ and ‘policy’ —that have had the predictable effect of all but halting the distribution of foreign-assistance funds,” the court filing said. The administration owes foreign administration groups “many millions of dollars in due and overdue invoices and reimbursement requests,” the filing said. It’s the second time Trump has been accused of defying a court order since re-taking office. A judge ruled Feb. 10 that Trump’s administration violated a temporary restraining order in a different case by failing to release all $3 trillion in federal funds. Judge Amir H. Ali in the US District Court for the District of Columbia set a hearing for 11:00 AM Tuesday. The case is Global Health Council v. Trump, D.D.C., No. 1:25-cv-00402, 2/24/25.
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